Life — November 25, 1886 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“I WONDER WHAT THAT THING 1s?” “IT'LL SEE IF I CAN CATCH IT.” ““WHAT WAS THAT? SOME- “py; ” E GOT IT. ‘THING GRABBED MY TAIL!” UNENLIGHTENED LIBERTY. AME Liberty sees on every side Signs of luxury, pomp and pride, While she, poor guest from a foreign shore, Like Lazarus, waits at the rich man’s door. AVE you seen Edwin Booth in “Hamlet?” was asked of a Chicago young !ady. VLBMayery GERMAN LINE. You Not A GERMAN? WE HAVE BEEN AMERICAN THE LAST FIFTY Herr Schmidt: He: Ou! no, YEARS. Herr S. (who is traveling to America for his health): MINE Gracious! I TINK YOU ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE. (Expects wonderful benefit for himself.) GRANDFATHER LICKSHINGLE, ON THE DANGERS OF MONOPOLIES. “ce if WISH to file notice that I will not be responsible for what may happen in this country, if the big monopolies are permitted to run things much longer,” remarked grandfather Lickshingle, as he laid down the morning paper. “Here is the Western Union Telegraph Company, failing to catch. one of its embezzling agents in the United States, have gone into Canada and brought suit against him in the Winnipeg Courts under | an old Dominion Statute, which provides that any one who brings stolen goods into Canada shall be subjected to the same punishment as if the stealing had actually taken place in Canada. “Tt has been reserved for a big, brutal monopoly like the Western Union to take advantage of such an old legal heirloom as this. Peo- ple have gone over into Canada time out of mind, and no one has. thought it worth while to say a word about prosecuting them under this. old law or any other law, because it has been conceded by the finest legal minds that if a fellow got into Canada with the boodle it was. his, his heirs and assigns forever. Now comes alonga bloated monop- oly and proposes to contest this point. This unspeakable outrage fires. the blood in your grandfather's veins until it is with difficulty that he restrains himself from going right out and hanging an old pair of pants or some other obstruction on the Western Union lines. This. outrage on the part of the monopoly should be rebuked, and I shall lose all faith in the patriotism of the American people if it is not done in some decisive and dreadful way. Here is a case where a bloodly riot would be justifiable, and I am not so sure but a bloody riot it will be just as soon as the news of this piece of deviltry gets percolated through the rank and file of bank presidents, confidential | bookkeepers, and other people who carry the keys. “What is this country coming to when a colossal corporation can so construe the law in its own behalf ? I tell you when such things come to pass in this so-called land of the free and the home of the brave, it is about time for honest men to climb a tree. If our free institutions. are to endure, such an audacious blow at liberty must be resented if it takes a leg. “Was it for this that I and the rest of your forefathers fit and bled on the plains of Bunker Hill? Was it for this that I ferried George Washington across the Delaware on that awful winter’s day and didn’t charge him a cent ? I tell you the monopolies have this country by the throat, anda poor man has about as much show for his white alley as the holder of a lottery ticket;” and grandfather withdrew, smiting the floor with his hickory cane. AGGAGE for the seaside in the summer season.— Bath- ing trunks. FLOWER of the chivalry. — Sancho Pansy. comicbooks.com